Tag Archives: Mike Keown

Keown helped ensure his own defeat

How one legislator voted for a redistricting bill that contributed to his political defeat five years later . . .

Tags: 2nd Congressional District , congressional redistricting , Mike Keown , Sanford Bishop

Bishop comes back from the dead, wins the 2nd District

Sanford Bishop survives a challenge from Mike Keown to retain his 2nd Congressional District seat . . .

Tags: 2nd Congressional District , Mike Keown , Sanford Bishop

Marshall, Bishop losing congressional races

Two of Georgia’s Democratic members of the U.S. House are in danger of losing their congressional seats . . .

Tags: Austin Scott , Jim Marshall , John Barrow , Mike Keown , Ray McKinney , Sanford Bishop

Political Notes – Keown, Bishop take their final swings

Sanford Bishop and Mike Keown have a rollicking final debate in the 2nd Congressional District race; Carol Porter talks about corruption; Roy Barnes deals with bovine issues . . .

Tags: 2nd Congressional District , Carol Porter , cows , Mike Keown , roy barnes , Sanford Bishop

Political Notes – Deal says he’ll avoid runoff

Nathan Deal says he can win next Tuesday without a runoff; a special TV commercial for Halloween; some more polls in the 8th and 2nd Districts . . .

Tags: 2nd Congressional District , 8th Congressional District , Austin Scott , Georgia Democratic Party , Jim Marshall , Markos Moulitsas , Mike Keown , Nathan Deal , roy barnes , Sanford Bishop

Poll has good news for Scott, bad news for Marshall

Republican legislator Austin Scott has a 13-point lead over Democratic Rep. Jim Marshall in an 8th Congressional District poll . . .

Tags: 2nd Congressional District , 8th Congressional District , Austin Scott , Jim Marshall , Mike Keown , Sanford Bishop

Bishop, Marshall on the ropes?

Republicans think they can knock off Democratic Reps. Jim Marshall and Sanford Bishop . . .

Tags: Austin Scott , Georgia congressional races , Jim Marshall , John Barrow , John Boehner , Mike Keown , Ray McKinney , Sanford Bishop

Political Notes – Either way, Pelosi looks like a goner

Nancy Pelosi won’t be speaker again, regardless of who wins control of the U.S. House; Ray McKinney gets some kind words, but little else, from House Minority Leader John Boehner . . .

Tags: Austin Scott , Georgia Conservation Voters , James Carville , Jay Walker , Jim Marshall , Mike Keown , Nancy Pelosi , roy barnes , Sanford Bishop

Political Notes – Bishop says he’s leading by 10 points

Dueling polls in the 2nd Congressional District race as Sanford Bishop says he leads by 10 points while Mike Keown says the race is a virtual tie; lawsuit challenging the new healthcare act moves forward in federal court in Florida . . .

Tags: 2nd Congressional District race , federal healthcare act , Mike Keown , Roger Vinson , Sanford Bishop

Political Notes: Sometimes you can still find bipartisanship

Republicans and Democrats alike support candidates in two judicial races; Carol Porter criticizes Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle in her latest TV spot; a tighter race in the 2nd Congressional District . . .

Tags: Bo Callaway , Carol Porter , Casey Cagle , David Nahmias , David Scott , Ken Hodges , Mike Keown , Sam Olens , Sanford Bishop